Finally, the third LP from AGNOSY has arrived!
Dark, heavy, galloping crust from the streets of London. AGNOSY is back to present us with a ferocious beast of an album that can only be forged by the anger and frustration of living in today’s world. “When Daylight Reveals The Torture” aggressively attacks evils such the current rise of fascism and animal abuse. It intelligently and passionately touches on the Afrin invasion and the revolution in Rojava and shows nothing but utter disgust toward the arrogance of humankind’s lust for greed and power that will inevitably lead us down paths of war and environmental devastation.
While lyrically AGNOSY are much more politicly straight forward this time around than on previous releases, musically they have expanded on their sound to create a dark and moody atmosphere while at the same time staying crust as fuck. To say they know what they are doing would be an understatement from this band of vets whose members have played in HIATUS, HEALTH HAZARD, and BEGINNING OF THE END.
Long galloping intros are followed up by traditional d-beat, fierce solo’s are then meet with vicious vocals and pulverizing bass in a brilliant recording captured by Lewis Johns at The Ranch Production House and was mastered by Brad Boatright at Portland’s legendary Audiosiege. We then pressed on deluxe heavyweight 150-gram vinyl, printed on reverse board jackets, and included an 11in x 22in gatefold insert to bring you a high quality and truly epic record.
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Unfortunately, during that ‘blip’ in human history humans have rendered as many species of life and their habitat-ecosystems extinct so as to rival all the other mass extinction in the geological record. So, while I get you’re point, and of course people should always try to do better, I kind of think humans ARE the problem.
Even the so-called ‘primitive’ societies living more sustainable lifestyles often show signs of developing destructive practices; the development of agriculture itself has a crucial role in deforestation and continues to do so to this day. Trying to feed 8 billion people on a planet whose ecological world system developed to sustain a few hundred million at most is always going to be a recipe for catastrophe, not just for them but for every other life form we share it with.
It’s a pretty heavy burden to do what often seem like triage for things that seem to be lost causes, but that just makes them more epic and worthwhile, and that much more significant when they are turned around. And many of them can be. We could stop abusing animals right now if we all wanted to. We could stop deforesting right now if we all wanted to. We could stop overpopulating right now if we all wanted to. We could turn around endangered species right now if we all wanted to. It’s just a matter of will, education, and cooperative effort.
I really liked your post but I still kind of think – just for the sake of accuracy in language – that humans are the problem. Athough at the same time, some people work toward solutions as well. That is the hope anyway.
Thanks for the great comment Neil. I appreciate it, and that you took the time to read this. Ian over at Uncivilized Animals also just recently wrote a very similar post.
And you are right, clearly humans are related to all the problems we face today – my point though is, that it is not the fact we are ‘human’ which causes those problems. It is more complex than that. What I am trying to address is the quick fix easy answers that often obscure the actual causes of problems rather than seek to address them